PHP-FTP Downloading Files

[Vic Spainhower]

Hello,

I am trying to download a file to my local machine using PHP. However, when
the script runs the file is placed in the folder assigned to the ftp user on
the Web server instead of downloading to my local C drive. After the
following script runs I find a file named C:\TestShowID.t xt in the user's
FTP folder on the web server. Can some tell me why this happens? The local
machine is a Windows XP machine.

Thanks,

Vic
$ftp = (object) array(
"host" = "ftp.mydomain.c om",
"user" = "us**@mydomain. net",
"password" = "password",
"remoteFile " = "ShowID.txt ",
"localFile" = "C:\\TestShowID .txt"
);
// Step one: Connect to the FTP server
if(!is_resource ($remoteRsrc=@f tp_connect($ftp->host)))
trigger_error(" Could not connect to remote "
. "server {$ftp->host}", E_USER_ERROR );

// Step two: Log into the server
if( !@ftp_login($re moteRsrc,$ftp->user,$ftp->password))
trigger_error(" Could not log on to remote "
. "server {$ftp->host}", E_USER_ERROR );

// Step Three: Attempt to copy remote file to local file
if(@ftp_get($re moteRsrc,$ftp->localFile,$f tp->remoteFile,FTP _BINARY))
echo "Remote file successfully written to {$ftp->localFile}";
else
trigger_error(" Could not import remote file.",E_USER_E RROR);

// Step Four: Close the connection
ftp_close($remo teRsrc);

[Kim André Akerø]

Vic Spainhower wrote:

Hello,

I am trying to download a file to my local machine using PHP.
However, when the script runs the file is placed in the folder
assigned to the ftp user on the Web server instead of downloading to
my local C drive. After the following script runs I find a file named
C:\TestShowID.t xt in the user's FTP folder on the web server. Can
some tell me why this happens? The local machine is a Windows XP
machine.

Thanks,

Vic
$ftp = (object) array(
"host" = "ftp.mydomain.c om",
"user" = "us**@mydomain. net",
"password" = "password",
"remoteFile " = "ShowID.txt ",
"localFile" = "C:\\TestShowID .txt"
);
// Step one: Connect to the FTP server
if(!is_resource ($remoteRsrc=@f tp_connect($ftp->host)))
trigger_error(" Could not connect to remote "
. "server {$ftp->host}", E_USER_ERROR );

// Step two: Log into the server
if( !@ftp_login($re moteRsrc,$ftp->user,$ftp->password))
trigger_error(" Could not log on to remote "
. "server {$ftp->host}", E_USER_ERROR );

// Step Three: Attempt to copy remote file to local file
if(@ftp_get($re moteRsrc,$ftp->localFile,$f tp->remoteFile,FTP _BINARY))
echo "Remote file successfully written to {$ftp->localFile}";
else
trigger_error(" Could not import remote file.",E_USER_E RROR);

// Step Four: Close the connection
ftp_close($remo teRsrc);

If you've read the PHP manual, you'll see that ftp_get() retrieves the
remote file (on the FTP server PHP is connecting to) and saves it as
the local file (on the machine running the PHP script).

If you've uploaded the PHP script to a web server, "local" is defined
as the web server, and subsequentally the user FTP folder.

--
Kim André Akerø
- ki******@NOSPAM betadome.com
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